Medicare is usually the third rail of electoral politics. Voters don’t like changes to the entitlement program, even when politicians suggest expanding it. And Iowa isn’t exactly a prime location to roll out big Medicare changes: Seniors make up 14.9 percent of the population there, compared with their 13 percent share nationally.
But that didn’t scare off Santorum. The former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania has, for months now, aggressively backed the Medicare changes that House budget chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R) rolled out in April. That would be the plan that proposed privatizing the program and giving qualified recipients federal money to purchase health coverage. The plan was a political flop. Polls found that voters weren’t exactly keen to scrap the entitlement program as it exists now....
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One of the realities Republicans conveniently forget is that the Poor of the USA are not all ideal. There are Poor on welfare, but, there is also the Working Poor.
All on welfare are poor, but, all that are poor are not on welfare.
The demographic group in the USA most severely impacted by the economic collapse of 2008 were African Americans. That is a fact. So, the GOP would target them with bigoted innuendos as the most hapless and helpless in the USA. Santorum is a very bigoted man. It comes across loud and clear in his book.
Dysfunction always screams for a scapegoat.
